Ray Waddle: Despite technology, life takes its own sweet time

9:13 PM,
May 3, 2013

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Ray Waddle

Shortly before his death in 2007, novelist Norman Mailer ventured into theology, speculating that the modern world has become a bloody battle between two unpredictable forces - God and Satan. And a third rival is rising fast to match those two - human free will.

The world-bending effects of our tech revolutions tempt us now to think we can stand on our own, claiming more power than the devil and no need of God. For Mailer it was frightening to think of a future of synthetic humans, robotics and other giddy products of human ingenuity.

"If I have been ready to question God's judgment on many a matter, ...